PFlow Waterfall with Krakatoa and FumeFX – Part 2

by a.cangelosi

PFlow Waterfall with Krakatoa and FumeFX – Part 2| What we’ll do

In this video for 3ds max, we’ll continue working at the waterfall scene done using Particle Flow and Krakatoa.
We’ll take a look at how we can finalize the environment meshes to obtain better water collision. Then we’ll work a little bit more at PFlow setup, adding more turbulence and more particles.

With the final particle setup we’ll move a step forward for Krakatoa rendering parameters, working on particle density, motion blur, matte objects and some tweakings to have something similar to a waterfall. At the end of the video we’ll start preparing the additional mist layer done using FumeFX. Next part will be the final one with this setup, then we’ll move in Realflow to make same scene but with fluid-dynamic simulation.

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19 Responses to “PFlow Waterfall with Krakatoa and FumeFX – Part 2”
  1. Adrien Rollet
    Posts: 16

    wow you’re unstopable :D and you’re tutorials are very exciting , thank you again and again !

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     Apr 5, 2012 at 2:09 pm
    • a.cangelosi
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      Thanks for your words, we have a lot of things to do ;) the planned tutorial list is really long and amazing ;)

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       Apr 6, 2012 at 1:40 am
  2. Dominik Abart
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    Welll i couldn`t watch it but the final image looks great..

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     Apr 6, 2012 at 1:04 am
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 905

      Thanks, hope you can see it soon !

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       Apr 6, 2012 at 1:39 am
      • Dominik Abart
        Posts: 6

        I preview of the final result would be great ;)

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         Apr 6, 2012 at 3:27 am
      • a.cangelosi
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        Thanks for suggestion.

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         Apr 11, 2012 at 5:08 am
  3. turas michal
    Posts: 7

    Hi, I have a problem with my particles they look like this http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/192/water0011copy.jpg/
    they are to thick, what should I do to make them smaller? Now I have 2 million particles. Thank you for tutorial.

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     Apr 15, 2012 at 11:04 am
    • a.cangelosi
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      Hi, thanks for posting. It can be due to particle density, try to use a lower value in Krakatoa, it should help :)

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       Apr 16, 2012 at 2:06 am
  4. Gianolio Corinne
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    Hi, thanks for tutorial, it’s very helpfull for a newbie like me !! But I have a big problem : How can I do rendering FumeFx particles with Krakatoa render ?
    How can I load the simulation’s files from FumeFx in Krakatoa ? I’m lost !!!
    On each trial, Krakatoa reminds me an error message : ERR: — Propriété inconnue: “ShadeFire” dans ReferenceTarget:Channel_Data !! I’m going crazy !!
    What can I do ?

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     Jul 19, 2012 at 4:49 pm
    • a.cangelosi
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      Hi, thanks to you. Usually you can render FumeFX stuffs in Krakatoa following two ways. You can render it directly activating the “FumeFX” button in the render tab in Krakatoa panels, or you can use PFlow to generate particles following the FumeFX sim, as we done in the Simple Ink simulation tutorial.

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       Jul 20, 2012 at 5:34 am
  5. divyanshfxartist
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    amazing..thx for this tute it really help me to understand Krakatoa…i will try this one and will post my result..thx once again..and also w8ing for part-3….

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     Aug 12, 2012 at 4:30 am
    • a.cangelosi
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      Thanks to you. We are planning a new Waterfall series to make it more complex and realistic….stay tuned for it.

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       Aug 13, 2012 at 2:41 am
  6. sujeewa
    Posts: 1

    nice work.please keep it continue.my congratulations for u . we are waiting for a surprice.cool tuts.

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     Aug 19, 2012 at 7:41 am
    • a.cangelosi
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      Thanks, we’ll release a new waterfall tutorial series too, with higher quality output.

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       Aug 20, 2012 at 2:57 am
  7. girish
    Posts: 1

    hi very nice tutorials, i like to be get one full project of architecural animation starting to end with walkthrough using vray. in that pool animation, tree animation everyting, hoping to will c that tutorial.

    thk u very much sir…

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     Aug 22, 2012 at 2:36 am
  8. Bobby
    Posts: 9

    Ciao Alessandro

    Thank you for your awesome tutorials! They are very helpful.
    I have a problem. I have finished two sequence shots. One with a car burnout animation through MR and the other, particles coming off the tires with Krakatoa. I’ve put them in AE and it’s all good, then I remembered I forgot the shadow and reflection of the particles on objects like the ground and the car. How can I achieve this? I’ve searched everywhere. And the only thing I can find is where I have to render the entire animation again through Scanline. Your expert advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you A!

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     Feb 4, 2013 at 9:32 pm
    • a.cangelosi
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      Thanks Bobby. Talking about your problem, which version of Krakatoa are you using ? Can you show me the actual comped result and the various passes ?

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       Feb 6, 2013 at 9:50 am
      • Bobby
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        Hey big A!
        How’s it going man? Thanks for replying so quickly. It’s very cool.
        I am using Krakatoa version 2.0.1.46319
        And how can I upload a screenshot so you can see it?
        Basically I have a .rpf sequence of the car burnout animation (this was rendered without the particle set up, I set up the particles afterwards) and then in my second render I rendered a png sequence of the particles with Krak. And now I realize I don’t have any shadows and reflections of the particles so when I comp the layers in AE, it’s okay but it’s not realistic enough. I want to strive for perfection like you.

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         Feb 6, 2013 at 6:22 pm

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